Games, sports and cultures / edited by Noel Dyck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dyck, Noel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Sociological aspects.

Sports.

Physical Description:

viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000.

Summary:

An inclination to view games and sport as ephemeral, nonserious, and inconsequential has served to discourage the distinctive contribution that anthropology might make to the study of sport, as well as the rich insights that a fuller appreciation of sport might furnish to anthropology This book brings a distinctively anthropological approach to the deep significance of sport and games in everyday life Contributors examine individual and team sports and sporting practices, from amateur and professional soccer to gymnastics, to unusual but nonetheless highly developed indigenous games such as Amerindian archery in South America and kabaddi in India.

Sports are shown to provide a particularly revealing window through which to examine such topics as nationalism, transnationalism, ethnicity, class relations, the body, health, identity, gender, schooling, and child rearing. Contributors also address contemporary concerns with narrative, practice theory, celebrity, mass media and entertainment, tourism, and the consumption of cultural commodities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1859733123

1859733174

OCLC:

44485325